Author

Wes Hardaker

Wes Hardaker is a Senior Computer Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute. He is well-known for his Net-SNMP software and has spent most of his career trying to improve network security, both architecturally through standardization efforts, as well as in real-world deployment by writing and directing software development projects. Next to Net-SNMP, Wes has also been involved in DNSSEC and IPsec.

https://www.isi.edu/~hardaker/

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Reduce requests to critical DNS zones with LocalRoot

By Wes Hardaker on 2 Feb 2021

Guest Post: When an authoritative DNS name server is temporarily unavailable, the ISP cache helps ride out the DNS bumps. Why not pre-cache important information with LocalRoot?

What’s in a name?

By Wes Hardaker on 13 Apr 2020

Guest Post: Names sent through to the DNS contain a wide variety of names from many applications, typos and strings of seemingly random letters.

Verfploeter: Broad and load-aware anycast mapping

By Wes Hardaker on 10 Nov 2017

Guest Post: Verfploeter is a new, open-source anycast catchment mapping technique that provides almost four million vantage points.